"We’ve all done this, haven’t we? Sitting alone in our car at a red light, telling off someone who isn’t there, and suddenly you realize someone’s looking and you try to pretend you’re only singing with the radio. (Just me?)" #cptsdhealing #cptsdrecovery #cptsdsupport #cptsdawa

“That instant alarm is an intelligent survival response that developed in an environment where conflict genuinely was dangerous… Maybe the people who were supposed to keep you safe were the ones who were most unpredictable when displeased.” #cptsd #complextrauma #complexptsd #conflictr

“She hated confrontation and wanted to give him a chance to do the right thing. Instead, he seemed completely unbothered, even daring to yawn and stretch as he came into the food truck. Then he had the nerve to say something about needing to leave a little early, and that was when Aggie felt a surg

This section is not called “how to fix yourself.” It’s not called that because nothing about you is broken, and I don’t believe in offering a list of steps that imply you’d be fine if you just managed yourself better. The all-in impulse is not a problem to be solved. It’s a way of being that comes

“…The desperate, lifelong sprint toward proving that your existence has value. That you are the stronger force in a room. That you can show up as your truest, most generous self regardless of how the other person shows up, and that this—this relentless insistence on giving from your core—is what ma